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“Haren threw a good game against us, but he was doing the same thing in the ninth inning he did in the first, and that’s a red flag,” Wedge said. “Somebody’s got to make an adjustment.

“Our right-handed hitters, our left-handed hitters – nobody did.

"We didn’t make any adjustments to what he was doing. I know we’re a young team, but you’ve got to do better than that,” Wedge said. “We will talk to our hitters, and they need to look at their own at-bats. It wasn’t the umpire. A lot of this tonight had to do with us.”

Brendan Ryan, who had one of Seattle's four hits: “We’re zooming through that game and you can see guys up their lunging at pitches down and away. You’ve got to do something different, maybe move up in the batters box. You cannot just let him get you the same way.”

The Mariners did, however, and now own a .230 batting average. For all the excitement they've brought to the '12 season at times, they are now 21-26 and a half game behind the Angels in fourth place.

About Bob Dutton

Bob Dutton joined The News Tribune in 2013 after more than 25 years at the Kansas City Star, including the last 13 covering baseball and the Royals. He was the president of the Baseball Writers' Association of America in 2008 and serves on the committee that nominates players to the Hall of Fame.